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一、“现代性”的复杂含义现代性(Modernity)生成于文艺复兴后期即启蒙时期,是以“启蒙”、“理性”为核心的近二百年来引领整个西方进入现代文明高峰的巨大的文化合法化工程,是人类社会自近代以来“现代化”进程的必然产物,是科学、技术、工业革命和社会现代化的结果。深入谈论现代性这个充满陷阱的知识话语范型,应该厘清如下几对概念或范畴:
I. The Complex Meaning of “Modernity” Modernity was born during the late Renaissance, that is, the Enlightenment period. It was a huge one that guided the entire West to the peak of modern civilization with “enlightenment” and “rationality” as its core for nearly two hundred years. The project of legalizing culture is an inevitable outcome of the “modernization” process of human society since modern times and the result of science, technology, industrial revolution and social modernization. In-depth discussion of the traumatic paradigm of modernized discourse of knowledge should clarify several concepts or categories as follows: